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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStop calling them federal agents. Until proven otherwise, call them "mercenaries".
Or shock troops or gestapo, if you like. But some of us have a hunch that they are getting paid through a mercenery company like Erik Princes company, so until proven otherwise (via a specific command structure), I think mercenaries is an apt description.
This guy was a federal agent.
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So were these guys.
And these guys.
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)coming from? Congress has oversight and should cut the funds immediately.
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)Been screaming thus fair a week. Cut the funding! WTAF?
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)oasis
(49,389 posts)Magoo48
(4,716 posts)Wednesdays
(17,380 posts)notinkansas
(1,096 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)On orders from Trump and Barr to suppress the 1st Amendment.
Protests are only heating up against them.
malaise
(269,054 posts)ReTHUGs
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)People with no badges, no ID, and no legal authority to arrest citizens who are asserting their rights to freedom of speech and assembly.
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)Not really into the hunch thing - wishful thinking that's too close to CT land.
lostnfound
(16,180 posts)We literally have no more proof of them being Federal Agents as we have of them being mercenaries. They certainly arent acting like Federal Agents. Seems like an insult to the FBI and DEA to call them Federal Agents. Theres no transparency, no oversight.
On the DHS website, they are described as federal law enforcement officers they dont even have a specific institution.
They also say One injury to a DHS officer has been reported; and no injuries to protestors or rioters have been reported for the night of the 23rd / morning of 24th. For the record.
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)That's what DHS is calling them.
I just don't understand the need to create a scenario where dark forces are at hand when the simple explanation is that these guys (and possibly gals) are existing law enforcement officers pulled from their day jobs to do this - none of them trained to do what they're doing, but that's a different issue.
My guess is that some of them are ICE and some are Border Patrol, and some are possibly even correction officers - none of which play particularly nice as you seem to believe the FBI and DEA do.